Maya's POV
Luca stood at the desk for a long time.
Not reading it again. Just standing with it in his hands like he was deciding what weight to assign it.
I waited. The hotel room was quiet and expensive and entirely wrong for what was happening in it.
"This is everything legitimate," he said finally. "The real estate holdings, the construction subsidiaries, the import business. Everything that isn't the other thing."
"Yes."
"He separated it. Four years ago, he separated the clean from the criminal and put the clean in my name." He set it down. "While I was gone. While I thought he was using every resource to keep me compliant."
"Maybe he was doing both," I said. "Keeping you compliant and preparing to hand it over. Both things at once."
He looked at me. "You're being generous abou
